Please Improve Debian for Multimedia Production

[Grammostola Rosea]

Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Mar 2009, Grammostola Rosea wrote:
>
>>> taste they need to be informed what to choose from.  It's like a 
>>> restaurant
>>> where you choose from a menu.  Currently we are lacking a complete 
>>> multimedia
>>> "menu" in Debian. 
>> An menu entry for multimedia sounds good to me
>> (Ubuntu has an menu entry for 'multimedia production:
>> - music production - video production
>>
>> (or something close to that).
>> This is good imo because audio apps are a lot small apps which 
>> clutter up in the menu now.
>
> Nothing against this but I used the term menu in a different than this
> technical meaning.  I hope this became clear in my mail.
That was clear, but it bumped up a old idea I had in my head ;)
Please take that idea serious...


>
>>>> Although I wouldn't choose those tasks[1],
>>>
>>> Sure - I told you I'm uneducated about your work - one reason more for
>>> you to make the tasks better, right?
>> I think this should be possible: you just pick a few, frequently used 
>> apps (when you build an distro you also have to choose some). Just to 
>> gave an idea.
>
> But we do not choose a distro - we just have a distro which is called
> Debian.  And we want to handle the packages which are just inside
> Debian.  The choice inside Debian was done based on the user interest
> and time of developers.
Now you misunderstood what I said ;)
Maybe I was not clear, but the discussion was about which apps you 
should choose for such a metapackage, and I said, just pick some common 
used apps, to give an idea what is possible.


>
>> The problem is an realtime kernel and a proper configuration for 
>> music production. Without that, you better stay away from music 
>> production imo. Ubuntu Studio has also some metapackages for video, 
>> music and artwork, but they also have an realtime kernel and a tool 
>> to handle the configuration.
>
> Well, I think the problem with the RT kernel was understood and it is 
> just
> a an issue of just *doing* the actual packaging - so why not just 
> starting
> with this?
[bit offtopic, there is another thread about this] I really like the 
openness  for an RT kernel in Debian.  I didn't expect it, so I'm really 
happy with. I hope some guys will jump in ! I will do my best to tell it 
around and ask people to join [/bit offtopic, there is another thread 
about this]

Kind regards,

\r